Hamas Stalls Biden’s Ceasefire Plan With Additional Demands
The Times of Israel : “Israel says terror group made drastic changes that amount to a rejection of its offer.”
Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas is stalling President Joe Biden’s ceasefire deal with additional demands, including an “up-front commitment to permanent truce” from the Israeli government, Israeli media reports say.
The new demands made by Hamas reportedly amount to significant amendments to the ceasefire deal offered by President Biden. “Israel says terror group made drastic changes that amount to a rejection of its offer,” The Times of Israel reported Thursday. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly asserted that Israel will not agree to a deal that ends the war before Israel achieves its aim of dismantling Hamas’s governing and military capabilities in the Gaza Strip.”
Hamas has used previous ceasefire talks to regroup and rearm terrorist forces. After Israel withdrew its military from Gaza in early April amid pressure from the Biden White House, the Islamist group rallied terrorist fighters in northern and central Gaza.
Besides the U.S., Hamas wants the United Nations, China, Russia, and other friendly countries to vouch for the deal that will protect its terrorist assets from any further Israeli military operations. “Hamas has also demanded that China, Russia, Turkey, and the U[N] be guarantors of the agreement,” the Jerusalem Post wrote.
The Israeli TV channel i24NEWS on Thursday reported Hamas’s new demands:
The demands include having three “interconnected and continuous phases” of the ceasefire, including a complete IDF withdrawal from the Gaza Strip within the first phase.
The Hamas leader also told Reuters that they demand to be the ones to choose the list of one hundred Palestinian prisoners serving long sentences for terrorism crimes who would be released from Israeli jail. In addition, the Hamas leader says the Israeli blockade on Gaza would have to be lifted and allow the free movement of people and goods into the enclave.
The demands were echoed by Taher Al-Nono, the media advisor to Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh. Speaking to Al Jazeera by phone, Al-Nono emphasized the importance of having three continuous phases to the ceasefire deal in order to prevent Israel from resuming it’s strikes on Gaza. Al-Nono said the IDF would have to withdraw from the Philadelphi axis and the Rafah crossing as part of the agreement.
Haniyeh’s advisor also revealed that Hamas had requested additional guarantors be added to the deal, such as Turkey, Russia, China and the UN. Al-Nono addressed the reports that the U.S. was attempting to strike a unilateral hostage release deal to free five captives who hold American citizenship, which Al-Nono denied. He told Al Jazeera, “We have not received anything official from the American government.”
IDF keeps pressure on Hamas terrorists in Rafah, rest of Gaza
With Hamas stalling talks while holding nearly a hundred Israeli hostages for over eight months, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued hitting terrorist fighters and infrastructure in Rafah and throughout Gaza.
IDF forces continue to operate in the Gaza Strip, eliminating terrorists in face-to-face combat, rocket launch sites, tunnel shafts, military buildings and other Hamas infrastructure pic.twitter.com/gUyjqSVx9s
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) June 13, 2024
“IDF troops are continuing intelligence-based, targeted operations in the area of Rafah,” the Israeli military said in a press release Thursday. “Over the past day, the troops conducted targeted raids in the area, located weapons, and eliminated several terrorists in close-quarters encounters.:
“During one of the operations, IDF troops used a drone to identify and strike an armed terrorist,” the military disclosed. “Afterward, an IAF aircraft struck the structure in which the terrorist had been operating. Additionally, the IAF struck a launch site containing rockets that were ready to fire from the area of Rafah toward Israel.”
Hezbollah intensifies rocket attacks after Israeli airstrike killed top terror commander
A day after an Israel airstrike killed Hezbollah’s senior-most terror commander since October 7, the Lebanon-based terrorist group intensified rocket attacks into northern Israel.
The slain commander, Sami Taleb Abdullah, led Hezbollah’s elite Nasr terrorist force and had “planned, advanced, and carried out a large number of terror attacks against Israeli civilians,” the IDF disclosed Wednesday.
Footage shows several fires surrounding the Golan Heights city of Katzrin, following a Hezbollah rocket barrage on the area. pic.twitter.com/alteuZRHWg
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) June 13, 2024
Hezbollah rockets and explosive drones ignited several forest fires in northern Israel. “Over 100 rockets and multiple drones were launched from Lebanon on Thursday afternoon, triggering continuous air raid sirens across northern Israel,” the Israeli news website YNET reported. “Air defenses intercepted several rockets, while others landed in fields, igniting brush fires in at least 15 locations. Firefighting teams have been dispatched to contain the blazes.”
MORE IDF STRIKES ON HEZBOLLAH
Overnight, Israeli fighter jets targeted buildings used by Hezbollah in Ayta ash-Shab, southern Lebanon, and additional infrastructure.
The strikes are steering to look like Gaza strikes… pic.twitter.com/unwgT8z7x8
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 13, 2024
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Kiss my ass…I voted for Trump, and will vote for him again.
I see that you’ve decided to pare down your wordiness and desire to offer utterances of eloquence in regards to political affairs. That is something we all might strive for.
“Kiss my @ss. I’m voting for Trump.”
It is as if Hamas doesn’t actually want a cease-fire. Wow. What a shock.
virgins sound more appealing – well so be it
Hamas rejection is good, many more will find out that there are no virgins for them and they are going strait to Christian Hell.
When you offer them an inch, they decide to hold you up for a yard.
So refreshing to see fellow leftist ingrates sandbag Brandon and make him look like the cuck he is.
He stuck his nose where nobody asked him to, and they painted a dick on it.
Someone remind President Biden that a counter offer constitutes a rejection. And that a rejection terminates the offer. Which means there is no reason (not that there ever was) for Israel to pause the fighting.
FJB: What’s a “counter offer”?
HB: Dad, it’s when the hooker tries asking for more than I am offering.
FJB: She’s probably fat. Get fat out of there, she’s just a dog-faced pony ho.
Its hard to see what Hamas’s end game here is…unless their end game is to die harder at the hands of the IDF?
If I was Hamas Id be all in for Biden’s ceasefire, with absolutely no intention of actually following it, so that Hamas can continue the war against the Jews while the Jews get all the blame.
But by not agreeing to the ceasefire all they are doing is allowing the Jews to kill them for longer.
Their hatred of Jews really has backed themselves in to a corner eh.
They want more Palestinians dead to keep pressure on Israel by the world community
Somehow murdering, rape, burning babies in ovens and decapitation is vogue now
Jesus can’t come soon enough
Their end game is they know the drooling diaper filler wants ‘a deal’ more than he wants anything else. So they make increasingly ridiculous demands knowing that the dementia patient and that moron Blinken will try to give it to them because the left wants a ceasefire MORE THAN HAMAS.
Hamas knows it, they’ve done this many times over the years, multiple times with that idiot Kerry and all the way back to Clinton, where Arafat was offered absolutely everything he claimed to want and walked away.
Hamas demands concessions, money, aid, and the release of terrorists simply to sit at the negotiating table, because they know the moron leftists give it to them.
However, this time is different, Hamas has badly misjudged Israel, they assumed that they would meekly bow to the Democrats when they threatened pulling aid, because that’s what’s happened previously, but Israel has basically told them to get lost and continue to fight.
They are fighting a well coordinated and effective guerrilla war.
That’s their beginning game and their middle game and their end game.
One of their goals is to divide Israel public opinion
One of their goals is to more effectively turn “world opinion” against Israel Jews Zionism
One of their goals is to instill doubt/hesitation amongst IDF soldiers. Same as in Vietnam.
One of their goals is to sever whatever alliance Israel has had with USA and with anybody else
One of their goals is to foment hatred toward Jews worldwide.
From their point of view theirs is a long-term strategy.
From their point of view as long as they live to fight another day, they are winning.
From their point of view, as long as there are Israeli hostages unaccounted for, they are winning
No army can conduct field operations for forever. Hamas is hoping to out-endure IDF and Israel society.
Honestly from their point of view, all things considered, they have every reason to believe that they’re winning. Their goal is to eliminate Israel and they’re closer to that goal today than they’ve ever been.
“Its hard to see what Hamas’s end game here is…unless their end game is to die harder at the hands of the IDF?”
When you haggle with an idiot, chances are real good he’ll raise his offer.
Hamas doesn’t want a cease fire. They’re using this war to convince the weak minded that they are the victim.
How can we surrender (someone else) to them if they won’t take ‘yes’ for an answer. Long term I think Israel’s tech sector needs to go into space mining. Because bolides can do what nukes can with less spillover into Israel. Make Gaza Thor.
Like Nixon, he has a secret plan to end the war.
nixon DID END LBJ’s War
By losing it.
The reason this looks so weird is that Hamas and the Dems use the same strategy: Make a tempting offer, then when the opponent says it looks good, move the goalposts and repeat until the opponent digs in their heels and stops. Then proclaim to the world that the opponent does not want to negotiate, and that they are the bad guys. When both sides do this, really bizarre things result like what we see from the current administration.
Gonna be interesting to see how this obvious attempt by Hamas to extort more concessions will be reported and covered. The propaganda BS of Hamas and their enablers became obvious long ago. This latest episode is made b/c Hamas still seems confident that many Nations, International organizations and media organs will continue ….many/most probably will but not all. Each iteration of this theatrical ‘Israelis are the baddies’ cuts the Willits continue the farce if only by a small degree. At some point Hamas is going to find themselves past the tipping point.
Hamas believes it has gained the upper hand over Israel and that the spiralling civilian death toll in Gaza would work in the militant group’s favor, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal, citing leaked messages the newspaper said it had seen.
Hamas is like Pavlov, using civilian deaths as food to get the world drooling with conditioned hate for Israel.
And there is NO WAY in hell the Israelis should let the UN anywhere near Gaza, especially any sort of “observation” or “peacekeeping” force.
Why protect the Palestinians from UN sex slavery and disease introduction?
Blinken and Biden, played AGAIN.
You can’t be played if you are on the same team. This needs to go to “unconditional.” Letting your opponent “regroup” has never worked out well.
Oh you mean a terrorist group is lying, being manipulative and trying to stall? Whaaaaat? They don’t care about UN resolutions you say and Biden’s need for more votes out of Michigan and Minnesota? I’m shocked, I can’t believe they would back track on their word. What is the world coming to?
I don’t see why anybody would be surprised. They’re simply continuing the same tactics as Arafat.
First – we must keep in mind that Hamas places almost no value on the lives of civilians. Their only value is in death; their bodies can be used to criticize Israel.
Second, Hamas is in the “Wonder Weapons Will Win The War” phase that Germany went through in 1944.- noting that Hamas faith is in missiles and Michigan. They believe that Biden can be bullied into stopping Israel because of his desire to win the upcoming election. They see the protests and think that college student vote combined with the muslim vote can swing the election. Perhaps this is unrealistic, but it is their best and only hope.
Third, they only have any negotiating power with Israel because of the hostages. Any agreement which gives up hostages decays that power. Therefore they may as well hold out for their ultimate goal.
And according to a story this morning in Israel National News, they have said that no one knows any longer how many hostages are still alive. So what is there to negotiate?
MK Benny Gantz thinks an Oct 7 every couple of years is worth the price of a cease-fire apparently
I find it very hard to believe that Gantz’s 2-year ceasefire proposal will be met warmly by the people of Israel….because it’s an insane proposal.
There is no ceasefire plan. There cannot be.
Biden doesn’t do plans.
That requires a grasp of mission, commitment, reality, cause and effect, and a minimum of two brain cells talking to each other.
He does poll and donor inspired reactions.
“Hamas stalls Biden”
That’s because it doesn’t take much to stall Biden.
I went to upvoted you but hit wrong this forum doesn’t allow correction
fjb to get hunter to
smoke peace pipe with hamas
Israel must press ahead and destroy Hamas, regardless of the idiotic, morally bankrupt, obnoxious and treasonous demands of crime boss and appeaser, Biden.
Actually, the benefit to Israel could be substantial, by not only eliminating Gaza’s genocidal, Islamofascist, Muslim supremacist and terrorist leadership, but also helping to kick Biden out of the White House geriatric ward, by enraging his pro-genocide, pro-terrorism supporters in the Dhimmi-crat base.